Carter's Review

This impressive 14-story apartment building at 925 Park Avenue on the northeast corner at 80^th Street has many duplex units and is at the west end of one of the city's most impressive side-street blocks, which contains several major and very impressive mansions.

The building was designed by Delano & Aldrich, whose other buildings include 1040 Park Avenue, the Union Club and the Council on Foreign Relations. 

This building was erected in 1908 as a co-operative by William J. Taylor, who also built 563 and 863 Park Avenue and 140 West 57^th Street.

It has 31 apartments.

Bottom Line

One of the avenue’s oldest tall apartment buildings has suffered some façade indignities over the decades but it still quite handsome.

Description

The beige-brick building has a large cartouche between the 11^th and 12^th floors facing the avenue.

The three-story rusticated limestone base of the building has a rounded low ledge and there are stoops leading to professional offices in the building along the side-street. The building has sidewalk landscaping and there are arched windows on the second floor.

The building originally had balconies at the sides of its frontage on the avenue at the 5^th, 7^th, 9^th and 11^th floors and a long balcony on the 12^th floor on the avenue and the side-street.

The building has pediments above its top floor end windows on the avenue that protrude above its roofline.  Above the third floor the building has limestone blocks at its sides.

It has some protruding and discrete air-conditioners and inconsistent fenestration.

Amenities

The building has a doorman, but no garage and no roof deck.

Apartments

Apartment 7/8C is a four-bedroom duplex with an entry foyer on the lower level that leads to a 19-foot-long gallery with staircase that opens onto a 17-foot-long library with fireplace that opens onto a 26-foot-long living room with fireplace that leads to a 17-foot-long dining room next to a 19-foot-long kitchen and 11-foot-long breakfast room.

Apartment 11/12 is a three-bedroom duplex with a 16-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 17-foot-long library with fireplace, a 26-foot-long living room with fireplace and a 18-foot-long dining from next to a 14-foot-long kitchen and a 13-foot-long laundry on the lower level and three bedrooms and two staff rooms on the 12^th floor.  The unit also has a staff room on the third floor.

Apartment 5/6C is a five-bedroom unit that has a 19-foot-long entry hall that leads to a 9-foot-wide foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long gallery that opens onto a 17-foot-long library with a fireplace, a 26-foot-long living room with fireplace and a 17-foot-long dining room next to a 32-foot-long kitchen with an office alcove on the lower level and the bedrooms are on the upper level.

Apartment 10DD is a one-bedroom unit that has a long entry hall that leads to a 22-foot-wide living/dining room with a wood-burning fireplace next to a pass-through 9-foot-long kitchen across from a 9-foot-long den.

History

A December 1, 1940 article in The New York Times said that the building “was one of the first apartment buildings exceeding six stories in height constructed on Park Avenue” and that “it originally had twenty-one duplex suites of ten rooms and four baths and eight single four-room suites.”  “In the remodeling six duplex apartments have been divided into nine suites of five and six rooms, with three offices for doctors on the ground floor,” it continued.

Location

This area is one of the most attractive on the Upper East Side.

The building is not far from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many boutiques and art galleries along Madison.

Cross-town buses run on 79th Street and one of the city's best schools, PS 6, is nearby in this very desirable neighborhood.

A local subway station is at Lexington Avenue and 77th Street.